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Trance: From Goa to the Superclub Era

Goa trance was not designed for superclubs. The superclub era took the BPM and the euphoria and left the rest behind. In 1989, Paul Oakenfold played at a small beach party in Goa, India, and heard music he hadn’t encountered before: a slow-building, hypnotic synthesis style that had been developing in that specific context for […]

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